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July 11, 2023 Commentary

Rights Abuse at Home Overshadows Modi’s Visit

Macron Should Break His Silence on Widespread Abuses in India

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron at a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on November 16, 2022

July 11, 2023 Commentary

‘Nonprofit’ Hospital or Commercial Juggernaut?

First responders load a patient into an ambulance from a nursing home on April 17, 2020 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

July 7, 2023 Commentary

Video: Weapons Explainer Series

July 7, 2023 Commentary

Uzbekistan’s Election Highlights Lost Hopes for Reform

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivers a speech at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 22, 2021.

July 6, 2023 Commentary

The UK’s Convenient Silence on Rwanda

Atrocious Human Rights Abuses by M23 Are Being Downplayed

Then-British Home Secretary Priti Patel (L), and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta sign an agreement

July 5, 2023 Commentary

Modi Supporters' Hate Speech Belies Claims of Indian Democracy During US Visit

US President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, June 23, 2023.

July 3, 2023 Commentary

Colombia: Abortion Rights Under Threat

June 30, 2023 Commentary

Normalizing France-Rwanda Relations Should Not Come at the Expense of M23 Victims

A boy collects mortar casings in the remains of a school building used as a base and allegedly destroyed by M23 fighters in Kishishe, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 5, 2023.

June 29, 2023 Commentary

Cluster Munitions and the Impact of International Law

Bonnie Docherty examining a US ATACMS cluster munition outside of al-Hilla dropped on Iraq in May 2003.

June 28, 2023 Commentary

Indigenous Voice to Parliament is a Matter of Human Rights

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June 27, 2023 Commentary

Imagination Needed to End Loneliness in Older Age

FloreFlorence Limekaya, 79, in her one-room home at the Helen Joseph Women’s Hostel

June 26, 2023 Commentary

Unveiling Resistance: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Iran

An Iranian woman walks along a street-side in Tehran without wearing her headscarf.

June 26, 2023 Commentary

Decriminalizing Sex Work Would be Ireland’s Next Opportunity to Choose Equality

Kate McGrew and other members of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland hold a candlelit vigil outside Leinster House in Dublin, Ireland to mark International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers, December 17, 2014.

June 26, 2023 Commentary

Sudan Today Follows Decades of Justice Denied

Smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombardment during clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan.

June 23, 2023 Commentary

The Windrush Scandal 5 Years On – What Needs to Change?

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